TOKYO, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Acrodea brings its OpenKODE implementations to the market; and offers
free Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X desktop versions to the developer
community.

Acrodea announced the availability of its OpenKODE implementations for
immediate use and licensing on February 11th 2008, at Mobile World Congress,
Barcelona, Spain.

Acrodea has been a key member in the OpenKODE Working Group of the
Khronos Group to create the OpenKODE 1.0 Specification - a lightweight
operating system and hardware abstraction layer that enables full source code
portability of demanding multimedia applications between different mobile
platforms and operating systems.

"As Khronos Group today publicly released the OpenKODE 1.0 Specification,
we are extremely pleased to be one of the first to release fully conformant
OpenKODE implementations to the market and from our part help create a common
application platform for the mobile industry," says Junya Tsutsumi, the CEO
and President of Acrodea Inc.

"Having to deal with various operating systems and hardware components
has been a major burden for us in the past, forcing us to spend significant
resources in operating system and even device specific porting - we believe
OpenKODE will allow us to significantly reduce our porting efforts and
minimize time-to-market. This is going to be a strong standard and we have
decided to adopt OpenKODE as one of the key platforms for releasing our range
of middleware products across all our market segments," says Yoshio
Kuniyoshi, the CTO and Vice President of Acrodea Inc.

Acrodea recognizes the importance of the mobile application developer
community in making the OpenKODE Specification a true success. To reach out
and help developers adopt OpenKODE as a platform of choice, Acrodea announces
today the immediate availability of its OpenKODE 1.0 implementations for
Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X desktop environments. Also a Linux version
will be released in the near future. Acrodea believes that by providing free
implementations for these desktop environments, developers can kick-start
OpenKODE based application development and be ready to bring their
applications to mobile platforms on an accelerated schedule.

"Acrodea's in-depth expertise and insights into the development of truly
portable mobile applications has been a significant influence on the design
and evolution of OpenKODE specification," said Neil Trevett, president of the
Khronos Group and chairman of the OpenKODE working group. "Acrodea is also to
be applauded for their decision to make their OpenKODE implementation for
Windows and Mac desktops freely - as this will enable developers to quickly
evaluate and leverage this significant new standard."

The OpenKODE 1.0 implementations for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X can
be downloaded for free at http://www.acrodea.co.jp/en/openkode.

About OpenKODE(R)

OpenKODE(R) is a royalty-free, cross-platform standard that combines a
set of native APIs into a comprehensive media stack specification for
accelerating rich media and graphics applications. OpenKODE aims to make
advanced media capabilities consistently available across multiple devices
for increased native source portability and reduced mobile platform
fragmentation. OpenKODE 1.0 brings together the OpenGL ES and OpenVG Khronos
media APIs to provide state-of-the-art acceleration for vector 2D and 3D
graphics and provides the new OpenKODE Core API that abstracts operating
system resources to minimize source changes when porting games and
applications between Linux, Brew, Symbian, Windows Mobile, WIPI and
RTOS-based platforms. Subsequent versions of OpenKODE will add the OpenSL ES
and OpenMAX media APIs to provide accelerated video and audio that is fully
integrated with graphics processing.

About Khronos Group

The Khronos Group is a member-funded industry consortium focused on the
creation of open standards such as OpenGL(R), glFX(TM), OpenKODE(TM),
OpenGL(R) ES, OpenMAX(TM), OpenVG(TM), OpenSL ES(TM), OpenWF(TM), OpenML(TM)
and COLLADA(TM) to enable the authoring and acceleration of dynamic media on
a wide variety of platforms and devices. All Khronos members are able to
contribute to the development of Khronos specifications, are empowered to
vote at various stages before public deployment, and are able to accelerate
the delivery of their cutting-edge media platforms and applications through
early access to specification drafts and conformance tests. More information
is available at www.khronos.org.

About Acrodea, Inc.

Acrodea, Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a software technology
R&D firm involved in middleware technology for mobile terminals. The company
is particularly focused on interface technologies connecting between the user
and terminal, and currently provides UI (user interface) technologies and
email enhancement technologies to the market. We are also applying R&D energy
towards the enhancement of graphics performance, which is indispensable in
facilitating usage of mobile platform interfaces. Our stance and efforts are
a continual commitment to superior products and improving technology, for
which we have received recognition worldwide. In addition to Japan and Korea,
Acrodea is engaged in business on the global market, including China, Europe,
and North America. The company listed publicly on Mothers Exchange of TSE on
Oct. 19, 2006, just two years and three months after establishment in July
2004. Acrodea is headquartered in Tokyo, and maintains an overseas presence
in Seoul, Korea; Helsinki, Finland; and Newport Beach, California, U.S.A. For
more information, please visit http://www.acrodea.co.jp.

For inquiries about this press release, products, and technologies,
please contact the following:

Marketing Department at Acrodea, Inc.
    TEL: +81-3-5768-8603    email: pr@acrodea.co.jp

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    Marketing Department
    Acrodea, Inc.
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